The Passionate Rod (the Manse) was actually a devious trick played by the Fair Folk of the west upon an extremely up-tight Immaculate Monk who had made his career administering defeat to the likes of them. A copy of a Manse which was first invented by House Cynis upon the Imperial Isle, an example on the Southwestern Edge of the Inland Sea was studied, and a Wood Manse belonging to the Monk was radically and rapidly re-shaped into a towering pillar of bamboo, green at the bottom with a red cap at the top. Hollow, with each floor a room linked by a circular stairwell, every room is a bedroom, and the top room is the hearthstone alter, where the Passionate Rod (the Hearthstone) forms upon the soft, fluffy pillow.